FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky Senate committee has advanced a bill to expand an address confidentiality program intended to protect domestic violence victims from their abusers. The measure builds on a limited program shielding victims’ addresses from voter rolls. The program would be broadened to mask their addresses on other government records if the bill becomes law. The proposal…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers have advanced a bill to give Kentucky parents a pathway to challenge school instructional materials they consider unfit for children. The bill takes aim at books and other materials containing sexual content. It’s among several bills proposing to boost parental input over school policies. The measure advancing Thursday would require school districts to create…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A new bill introduced in Kentucky would relax the state’s near-total abortion ban. The measure would allow exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. It was introduced Wednesday, but its sponsor stopped short of predicting how his Republican colleagues will react. The bill’s sponsor is Republican Rep. Jason Nemes. He says the bill is the…
Frankfort, Kentucky, USA with the Kentucky State Capitol at dusk.LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Cassie Chambers Armstrong has won a special election for a seat in the Republican-dominated Kentucky Senate. She’ll succeed the state’s newest member of Congress. Media outlets report that Armstrong, a Louisville Metro councilwoman, won with 77% of the vote in Tuesday’s election. She defeated Republican Misty…
(Source: CBS Newspath)KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden is back in Poland after an unannounced visit with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ukraine. Monday’s surprise trip was a gesture of solidarity coming days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden delivered remarks and met Zelenskyy to announce an additional half-billion dollars in U.S. assistance and to reassure…
“As I walk the streets, memories flood back to me – memories of a life once full of the sounds of children’s laughter and the warmth of my neighbors. But now, it’s hard to comprehend how everything was suddenly destroyed.” -Volunteer Hala Assi (Source: The White Helmets/@SyriaCivilDef/Twitter) ISTANBUL (AP) — Survivors of the earthquake that jolted Turkey and Syria 15…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky House committee has advanced a bill aimed at helping overcome the chronic teacher shortage. The bill won bipartisan support Tuesday in clearing the Education Committee. The bill’s sponsor is the committee’s chairman, Republican Rep. James Tipton. He says it won’t resolve the problem, which he says worsened over years and will take time to…
(Source: WWL via CBS Newspath)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans police chief says a teenager died and four other people were wounded — including a 4-year-old girl — when gunfire broke out during a Mardi Gras parade Sunday night. The shooting happened on St. Charles Avenue as the lavish Krewe of Bacchus parade neared the city’s Central Business District….
(Source: CNN via CNN Newsource)JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home. She was with her paternal aunt’s family Monday. The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the Feb. 6 earthquake. She was discharged Saturday and her…
Frankfort, Kentucky, USA with the Kentucky State Capitol at dusk.FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate passed a bill Thursday allowing teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns — a proposal that was touted as protecting free-speech rights in classrooms but denounced by a lawmaker whose transgender son died recently. The measure cleared the Senate…
